Topics Water Supply

Color drawing of an elevated water reservoir on the banks of a river with green land shown on either bank

Isometrical View of Fairmount Water Works, 1843

Apparatus for testing Model Turbine Engines used at Fairmount, 1859-60

Apparatus for testing model turbine wheels used at Fairmount, 1859-60

Fairmount

Fairmount Water Works, about 1860

New Mill House at Fairmount (2008.001.0046)

New Mill House at Fairmount

View of Fairmount Water Works, ca. 1827

PWD's Lance Butler holds a flathead catfish caught in the Schuylkill River

PWD’s Lance Butler with an invasive flathead catfish